PRESQUE ISLE — Though they found some common ground on veterans’ benefits and public education, U.S. Senate candidates Shenna Bellows, a Democrat, and incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins remained divided on raising the minimum wage and providing universal health care during Monday night’s debate in Presque Isle. The locally televised debate was the first of […]
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A. Marden: Ads stretched the truth
Is there no limit to how politicians will twist the truth to get votes? One of Shenna Bellows’ ads says that, once in Washington, she would increase Social Security benefits and increase the minimum wage. The Social Security Trust Fund is scheduled to go bankrupt, largely due to liberals tapping the trust fund for other […]
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Barry Allen: Caring about what is best
In 1972, Mainers sent Margaret Chase Smith a message. She had lost touch with what was important to the citizens of Maine. Today, Maine again has a Republican woman senator who considers wealthy special interest groups her true constituency. Susan Collins tried to keep more than 40,000 Mainers from acquiring health insurance. She voted against […]
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Vandalism of Collins campaign signs treated as hate crime
WISCASSET — Swastikas spray-painted on Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ campaign signs in Franklin, Kennebec and Lincoln counties over the weekend are being treated as a hate crime, according to Maine law enforcement officials. Reports of the symbol of the Nazi party defacing Collins’ signs along Route 27, from Wiscasset to Farmington and in the […]
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New poll shows Michaud has lead over LePage
AUGUSTA — The polling trends in Maine governor’s race remain stable with Democrat Mike Michaud holding an edge over his opponents, according to a recent poll commissioned by the Bangor Daily News. The poll, conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs from Oct. 6-12 — the week of the first gubernatorial debates — showed Michaud with 42 […]
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GOP’s Collins remains popular in independent Maine
CARIBOU (AP) — Susan Collins, the last moderate Republican from New England in the U.S. Senate, credits her childhood in northern Maine with shaping her values. She says she learned the importance of hard work by age 10 while plucking potatoes from cold dirt during the harvest break in Caribou for 30 cents a barrel. […]
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A. Watson: Cultivates the middle ground
Gridlock is poisonous. It is quite literally the cause of paralysis within the federal government and it has been forced upon the public as a result of bombastic partisans digging their heels so deeply into a political position that compromise becomes an impossibility. The nation desperately needs a strong U.S. senator who is rooted in […]
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Gabby Giffords ad to support Collins in Senate race
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gabby Giffords is running a new television advertising campaign to benefit U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine in her Republican campaign for re-election. Collins is one of just two Republicans nationwide to get the backing of the former Democratic Arizona congresswoman’s political action committee. The group, Americans for Responsible Solutions, is promoting […]
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F. Smith: Methodical, conscientious
Susan Collins is a most excellent and dedicated U.S. senator. She follows in the tradition of Maine’s other long-serving great senators that I have personally known: Republicans Olympia Snowe, Bill Cohen, Margaret Chase Smith, Fred Paine and Ralph Owen Brewster; and Democrats George Mitchell and Ed Muskie. Each, while loyal to their party, was also […]